I hope this news travels to more gen pop. My 82yo MIL uses Firefox because she’s concerned about the acceleratingly encroaching “police state”. That being said as an IT manager, it’s hard to tell my employees to incur the friction of broken Google services (Meet, a few others) for the intangible privacy benefits.
Maps is the most frequent offender of something that is "kinda broken" on Firefox - black tiles/boxes, slowness, other things not rendering right. But on Chrome, it works fine 100% of the time.
I’ve been working on doing this with Coolify. There are very few coolify settings to backup, and then all the application configs are stored in /data/coolify. And I use kopia to backup all the volumes. It’s not pretty, and a little hacky, but workable for disaster recovery.
Dokploy ergonomics I found just a bit lacking, and switched to Coolify instead. I daresay the feature that swayed me was force “pull latest images” button on coolify (convenient way to update any app), that was weirdly not available on Dokploy.
What’s missing in both, and would liked to hear from hn, is docker-native backup solutions, for backing up select docker volumes. Currently I’m using some tricks with duplicati, but I wonder if there’s anything better.
Also this is the first I’ve heard of coreOS, the author says nothing about it, though it’s in the title. I wonder why someone choose it over Debian.
I actually use Dokploy in production, you have to literally press just one button to redeploy using the latest version of your app, straight from the repo.
> isn't room for doing it arbitrarily as from my perspective it is a suboptimal strategy towards accomplishing one's goals.
One’s goals? And if my goal were to enslave a nation of people to enrich myself and maintain power for as long as possible?
> I am not interested in making an emotional argument. I would be willing to hold my belief regardless of what a system is made up of.
You cannot discuss governance and civilization design without emotional arguments - i mean i guess you can you can if you lean psychopathic. I don’t mean to name call so please correct my assumptions here what you mean.
Closed societies are tolerable in theory - but in theory people should be able to opt-in or opt-out. If they aren’t free to opt-out such as with a national closed society it’s not civilization, it’s slavery.
One of the big claims is that perhaps the Biden administration had a policy of issuing ssn’s to illegal immigrants. I’m not agreeing or endorsing but this is one of the issues their looking into. If Elon were trustable as an honest broker, this would be compelling to investigate.
Immigrants legal or not that are issued SSNs cannot use them to get money unless they pay into Social Security for at least 10 years and then retire, and only if they don't get deported by then. It's a non-issue that doesn't warrant further investigation.
If it was happening they would be finding them. "I'm just saying this is potentially suspicious" always has to be followed up with some facts that were discovered. Trump and Musk have been claiming huge numbers of bogus 150+ year old social security payments, those appear to not be real - any real fraud would result in criminal citations and would be widely circulated. Soc sec probably has 70 million people on the rolls, there must be some fraud, any huge org has it. But they haven't circulated any info.
Similarly, they claim they found "kids are on social security!" but it turned out to be survivor benefits or similar. They were not even aware or able to check that.
It's like the "illegal immigrants are taking us over" claims, or the Trump claim to "end the Ukraine war in 24 hours". It's apparently very powerful to make these claims of fixing hard problems in a day. You have to have some proof, some results. I see none. The world is hard, I need a leader who doesn't do silly things like tariff random islands in the ocean that have no trade with the us.
Nice article but I with there was something more authoritative to compare it to. I know controlled in-lab sleep studies are expensive but this would be the key data to have in the mix.
The Quantified Scientist YouTube channel by Rob ter Horst does a good job imo at comparing trackers against an industry standard baseline. For sleep he uses the Z-Max EEG device.
Totally agree there’s something unnerving about these utopic systems pushers.
However, there’s a strong argument to be made to to the question, what does our socio-politico-economic system look like if we leave it “un-designed” and let it grow in its natural direction? To which the answer is royal-subject-feudalism.
We’re seeing the decline of constitutional democracies before our eyes. Was it a grand experiment that will give way to the lazier solution to human order?
Feudalism is the multi-polar trap we snap back to when the serfs don’t actively put energy into a better system.
Maybe some would say fine to that. Because nowadays the serfs could have laptops and nice houses. And the freedoms that you would have limited by your rulers would be minimal.
But even so, the idea that sliding back into feudalism would defer a path to more decentralized sovereignty seems obvious.
